Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

n. Y, on the 14th. He was secretary of
the Masonic lodge at Batavia, n. Y, when
the famous William Morgan seeded and
disappeared. Peck was always staunch
defender of the attitude taken by the
order during those exciting times.
THE hog packing in Milwaukee for the
winter season 1867, just closed, aggrega-
ted 329.255 head; average weight, 1871
pounds net; average yield of lard per
hog, 27.19 pounds-a decrease of
1851 hogs and go pounds
per hog in average weight as
compared with the winter of 1856 Sum-
mer packing of 1857 March l to Novem-
Der u, 225, s23 head; average weight, 10 SIS
pounds net; average lard yield, 25 pounds
Total packing for the year, $50, or hogs.
DANIEL MANNING, eX-Secretary of the
Treasury, sailed for Europe on the 18th,
instead of waiting till the 80 as he had
intended
THE Virginia Legislature assembled in
extra session on the 10th.
SHARES of the broken Maritime Bank of
New Brunswick are being bought up by
specializing capitalists.
FIVE counterfeiters-two of them WON
en-were captured at North Lewis burg,
O., on the 10Th.
CANADIAN officials have sent sugges-
ton to London to have the fish dispute
ton.
NINE SCALCH1 is very sick in Chicago.
1t Is denied that ill-feeling exists between
her and Nine. Patti.
FIVE county officials were arraigned in
court at Chicago on the 18th, charged
with "boodling."
THE Upper Missouri and other North
western rivers We're reported on big
rise on the 10Th, and much overflow dam
age was also reported.
IT is reported that the colonial gov
eminent of Nova Scotia is about to sub
NIT to popular vote the question of
secession from Canada.
THE Engineer Neacs has investigated the
Dedham disaster, near Boston, and pro-
nounces the bridge to have been veri-
table death trap.
A. K. CUTTING has turned up in New
Orleans looking for work. He has post
poned revolutionizing Northern Mexico
Indefinitely.
The German press takes gloomy view
of the situation of affairs in Russia, draw
ing conclusions from the late attempt on
the Cars life.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS of the General
Land Office denies that he his written a
letter to Governor Hill of New York sup
porting him for the presidency.
A PASSENGER train on the Auburn
branch of the New York Central, west
from Auburn, collided with a freight near
the depot at Geneva, N. Y, on the 10Th.
Four persons were injured, including one
of the engineers, who is not expected to
live.
THE Morris & Essex Railroad Company
have about concluded to pay their State
taxes to New Jersey rather than run tn 9
risk of FORGETTING their charter.
THE slave girl whose Freedom P1vmOuth
Church purchased twenty-seven years
ago, at the request of Henry Ward
Beecher, is reported to be still living at
Peekskill, N. Y, near the Beecher country
seat.
A RAILROAD wreck occurred near Vim
cent O., on the 10th, in which two people
were killed and three wounded.
HOUSE bill to increase the Governors
salary to IS 900 year was passed by the
Ohio Senate on the 10th.
c. II. J. TAYLOR (colored), of Kansas, has
been appointed Minister to Liberia.
JAMES G. BLAINE was visitor on the
floor of the State Senate of Maine on the
10Th.
ABOUT two hundred and fifty section
hands employed on the Pittsburg division
of theFort Wayne railroad, struck on the
10Th for an advance in wages. The men
were receiving S125 per day and struck
for $3.50 per day. 1t is hardly probable
that they will be granted their demand.
ST.. PATRICK's Catholic Church at Nor
witch, Conn, was damaged to the extent
of $4,000 by fire on the 10th. The build
ing cost $3.50, 0l0, and is insured for So, 600.
The fire, which was caused by careless
altar boy dropping a coal from the CEN
ser, was stubborn, and required two
hours work by the firemen to extinguish
it.
A LARGE temperance convention was
held at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 18th.
JOHN w. MAcKAY denies that he is in
any way connected with the deal for the
Baltimore & Ohio railway.
KIDNAPPING and incendiarism are SAID to
be epidemic in Cuba.
THE New York Supreme Court, on the
18th, confirmed the sentence of Peter
Smith for murder, and fixed his execu ton
for May 5.
THE French press are indignant at De
Lesseps for publicly asserting in Berlin
that France is the natural friend of Ger
many.
ARGUMENTS began in the Illinois Su-
preme Court on the nth on motion for a
new trial in the Chicago Anarchist case.
THE new Cotton-Seed Oil Company has
contracted for half million dollars
worth of machinery for their contemplate
ed mills In the COJtOn DelG.
CONTINUED financial trouble besets the
National Opera Company, most of the
principal singers being behind with tn cir
salaries.
CANADIANS are thinking of inviting a
crack regiment of militia from the United
States to participate in the celebration
of the Queens jubilee.
SENATOR JONES, of Florida, made st.
Patrick's Day speech at Detroit, Mich,
and gave some original views on the
New South
BY the caving in of church steps at Chi
cago during st. Patrick Day service, two
people were fatally and four seriously in
iured.
THE funeral of the late Captain James
B. Eads took place from Christ Church,
st. Louis, on the 18th.
BERTHA KLINE, aged thirteen years, who
had a finger crushed in a cotton mill ten
days previously, died at Lancaster, Pa, on
the 18th, of lockjaw, after suffering ter
ribly.
arrested in New York, on the 18th,
charged with connection with swind ling
watch concern.
FRANK A. SCOTT, the de& Ting cashier
of the publishing firm of Webster & Co.,
of New York, has confessed to Charles
l.. Webster at the county Jail that he APP
propriated to his own use $4,000 of the
firms money. The prisoner further said
that he would not resist any action taken
by the firm. He also expressed determi-
nation to make restitution.
Wff. ]. HUTCHINSON, an ex-New York
broker, is in prison there for conversion
of stocks to h IS own use which had been
instructed to him.
PIERRE SoLIDoR MILoN, who served
with distinction under Napoleon Bona
parte in the early part of the present